A16596:187
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving…A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing…
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Delivered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, John Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing of the Lords Supper. Deliuered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, Iohn Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.
London: printed by George Purslowe, 1617
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1Sixthly, the nature and property of a Sacrament, teacheth this also which I have affirmed. for as Cyprian writeth, that Sacraments bear the names of the things which they signify: so doeth Saint Augustine teach,2 that if Sacraments have not some signification with the things whereof they be Sacraments; then are they no Sacraments.
1Sixtly, the nature and property of a Sacrament, teacheth this also which I haue affirmed. for as Cyprian wrieth, that Sacraments beare the names of the things which they signifie: so doeth Saint Augustine teach,2 that if Sacraments haue not some signification with the things whereof they be Sacraments; then are they no Sacraments.
- 1The sixth reason against Transubstantiation.The sixt reason against Transsubstantiation.
- 2Cyprian, in Sermone de Chrismat. Augustinus ad Bonifacium.
Now in the Lords Supper this similitude is first in nourishing, that as bread nourisheth the body; so Christs body broken, feedeth the soul. Secondly, in bringing together many into one, that as in the Sacrament, many grains of Corn are made one bread: many Grapes are made one liquor and Wine: so the multitude which worthily receive the Sacrament, are made one body with Christ, and his Church. Last of all, in one unlikely likeliness or similitude, that as bread eaten, turneth into our nature: so we rightly, eating the Sacrament ⟨p. 98⟩